Hypocrisy Is So Hip.
By Jim Conley • May 2nd, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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I updated a previous post with this material, but I don’t want it to be missed.
Readers will recall that the last time the TAB addressed the issue of selectmen flashing badges, (as they did in yesterday’s front pager on Gil Hoy) it was when they passed over former Selectman Deborah Goldberg for Lieutenant Governor on that basis. (I thought there was plenty to disqualify Goldberg without the badge flash.)
But “the attack on Goldberg’s personal character” led a group of Brookline’s political lowlifes to take out a full page ad chastising the paper.
Check out the names of those signing, including Nancy with an Asterisk Daly (of course, her name is mis-spelled, cutting such a large figure and all). And the entire Bobby Allen clan signed this declaration of independence from cheap shots concerning badge flashing.
So what’s changed? I mean, what could possibly happen to make Daly and Allen abandon their strongly-held principles? Nothing.
They have no principle; except to screw their enemies.
Update: In addition to endorsing Daly, the TAB had previously endorsed Allen and Selectman Jesse Mermell. Maybe we should call these three the TABbies. After all, the paper — owned by Gatehouse Media, Inc. of New York — should assume responsibility for visiting this misery upon us. It would also be some comfort to the rest of us, I suppose, if the people involved in these endorsements actually lived in Brookline.
And the TAB has endorsed the Brookline override. Too bad they couldn’t get the facts right in their voter’s guide on the subject.
Perhaps we’ll get an “In Focus” column from town hall hack and TAB columnist Stanley Spiegel sorting it all out. Let me know what it says. As a writing instructor, I have more than my fill of poor writing.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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Hypocrisy …. A selectman looses ALL 4 other Selectman’s support for a traffic stop and using a badge and you give him a pass. The TAB (paid for by his mother’s Real Estate biz) lightly scolds him. His resigning or the badge is not the story …it’s if he can be forced to resign because of what he did (personal or not) he can be forced to vote a certain way.
I would rather have a selectman who is in Chinatown at 4 am, then a selectman who is in the pockets of the developers 24 hours a day.
Wow! I’ve had a badge for over 25 years. I’ve never carried it. The amazing thing is I have never put myself in a position to have to use my “badge” to get out of a “situation”. I think it’s called GOOD ETHICS!
The titles of Police and Fire Commissioners should be thrown out along with the badges for any politician.
Anytime the “commishes” have used their “powers” within the town is to slash the public safety budget and use the funds for their own pet projects.
And the newly redesigned rec fields at the “old dump” why not name it “Public Safety Field” Seems if they want to build on the cuts of public safety, we might as well get something out of it.
Ethics for a Town Employee or Town Official are on a 24/7 basis.
If an employee did what some “selectperson” did or does, they would be terminated on the spot and not given an opportunity to apologize and or resign.
Live by the sword and die by the sword.
Response to S. Kaplan:
Yeah.
You can see the control over his votes.
A great example would be when he stood up for Arthur Conquest in a 1-4 vote, with every town official ready to throw Hoy out the window!
Give me a break!!